CGA Mining on track to produce 200,000oz gold per annum at Masbate

CGA Mining has completed the gold separation from river sandsupplementary crushing circuit at the Masbate Gold Mine in the Philippines and first ore has been fed into the circuit.

CGA is completing a US$15 million investment program designed to upsize throughput to 6.5 million tonnes per annum at Masbate and the company remains on track to produce 200,000 ounces gold per annum. The company said the circuit ran well and this week will see the throughput gradually ramped up to design. The supplementary crusher consists of a jaw crusher combined with a secondary and tertiary cone crushers and has been installed to deliver 12 millimetre product to the grinding circuit. Initially this will be ideal direct feed for the ball mills whilst the SAG mill is brought back on line and ultimately will be used to ensure 6.5mtpa throughputs are maintained. Once this is completed and the...